# Playing With the Elderly

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [September 20, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128 "2013-09-20T07:30:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![detahramet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/detahramet/32/58_2.png) [@detahramet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/detahramet)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/1 "2013-09-20T07:30:10Z")

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Are you up for a real challenge?  
Or at least an interesting RP?  
WELL HERE IS A CHARACTER BUILD FOR YOU!  
I call him…  
TOM  
The Old Man!

5 Strength  
6 Dexterity  
7 Intelligence  
5 Perception

Near Sighted  
Bad Back  
Forgetful  
Poor Hearing

Senior Citizen

Have fun surviving!  
Bonus points if you role play it as not realizing its the apocolypse!

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**Author:** ![Gatora](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gatora/32/36_2.png) [@Gatora](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gatora)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/2 "2013-09-20T13:12:47Z")

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I’m pretty sure you can’t get stats lower than 6…

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**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/3 "2013-09-20T14:44:08Z")

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we need more traits to add to the realism

traits:  
dementia (add adult diapers. if you mess yourself you take a morale hit especially when we add NPCs back since its embarrassing)  
Hemroids (then add donut pillows to avoid pain when sitting down and roid cream)  
impotent (causes mood swings)  
bad breath  
enlarged prostate (cant sleep through the night since you have to get up to pee repeatedly)  
kids dont call (anger issues at the kids since they dont call)

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/4 "2013-09-20T17:15:46Z")

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> [@Gatora](#):
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> I’m pretty sure you can’t get stats lower than 6…

You can lower any stat down to 4, it’s just generally a bad idea, especially for perception.

I think I might try this out when my newest character dies, I’ve got a pretty good run going though.  
Unfortunately I’m probably not gonna get any bonus points, because I’m not sure how I could survive more than 5 minutes while pretending it isn’t the apocalypse.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/5 "2013-09-20T22:32:02Z")

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:-/

Dunno about this one. Watching Granddad rot in a nursing-home bed in end-stage dementia wasn’t much fun. Glad you enjoy it, I guess.

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**Author:** ![Vaylon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vaylon/32/1023_2.png) [@Vaylon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vaylon)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/6 "2013-09-20T22:43:12Z")

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This idea reminds me of “City of Rott.”

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**Author:** ![detahramet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/detahramet/32/58_2.png) [@detahramet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/detahramet)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/7 "2013-09-20T22:45:35Z")

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This is less depressing dementia and more Mr Magoo.

Still equally poor in taste.

Now to come up with something of even more poor taste to overshadow this. I’m thinking something relating to 9/11

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**Author:** ![Iosyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/iosyn/32/35_2.png) [@Iosyn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Iosyn)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/8 "2013-09-21T18:35:49Z")

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I wonder if he remembers when it was all fields.

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**Author:** ![kilozombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@kilozombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kilozombie)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/playing-with-the-elderly/3128/9 "2013-09-21T18:51:01Z")

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Dunno about this one. Watching Granddad rot in a nursing-home bed in end-stage dementia wasn’t much fun. Glad you enjoy it, I guess.[/quote]

You’re a great guy and all, but can you stop taking everything personally? We’re all just having fun on an internet board, and there’s no need to hate on everything else for bad taste. Consider CDDA as a whole. Schizophrenia is /extremely/ misrepresented and I know a few schizophrenic people, but I’m not hurt. It’s just a game.